Sunday, 4 December 2016

US House passes bill to censor Russian propaganda sites

WARNING:
US House passes bill to censor Russian propaganda sites. War on “fake
news” begins!

Alex
Christoferou

4
December, 2016

Section 501 calls for the US government to "counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence."

First
it’s the war of words. Then it’s a shooting war. This is how it
all begins.

It is
strikingly curious, and hypocritical, that the neo-liberal left and
neocon right, continuously talk about alt-right fascism seeping
into American society, are now the ones actively creating a US
fascist state… where “books are burned” and any dissenting
voices will be considered Kremlin stooges. Smoke
and mirrors.

–the liberal mainstream media failed to practice ethical journalism and it is abhorrent for them to admit this. Instead, they have decided to double-down on the failed strategy of delegitimizing anyone who disagrees with them. No one should be surprised about the mainstream’s sudden embrace of the “fake news” meme. This embrace is a form of shameless hypocrisy.

The
Washington Posthas
been at the forefront of disseminating the “fake news” narrative
with its ridiculous, poorly sourced, PropOrNot
“fake news” list.A
group of shadowy “journalists and scientists” who have discovered
that the Kremlin is controlling 200 websites in an effort to seed
dissent within American society.

The
PropOrNot group remains anonymous, as
cowards usually do, but
many sources believe some sort of George Soros-Ukraine neo-nazi
connection to be behind the anonymous hucksters enjoying their
15 minutes of fame.

Yes, the WashPost is saying: some people who we won't identify, using methodologies we won't describe, created This Important Blacklist!

Glenn Greenwald added,

Mike Runey@MikeRuney

@ggreenwald not to mention the methodology of the report and the report itself - we're all looking at a bad Geocities page for clarity

4:08 AM - 26 Nov 2016

Other
media proxies have also chimed in on the “fake news”
charade including the
LA Times with
it’s associate professor Melissa “Mish” Zimdars’ “fake
news” list.

As
the world collectively laughs in disgust at the entire “fake news”
lie being dragged out before us, the
US House is quietly acting to
bring mass censorship to America and the Internet, in response to
“Russia influence” over the media.

The
Duran has also published extensive real
news pushback
in response to the censorship about to be passed into American
law, with
the potential to block any and all websites that do not
faithfully toe the US government line…

A quick skim of the bill reveals “Title V—Matters relating to foreign countries”, whose Section 501 calls for the government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”

Establishment or funding of a front group.

Covert broadcasting.

Media manipulation.

Disinformation and forgeries.

Funding agents of influence.

Incitement and offensive counterintelligence.

Assassinations.

Terrorist acts

As ActivistPost correctly notes, it is easy to see how this law, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target, threaten, or eliminate so-called “fake news” websites, a list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration.

Curiously, the bill which was passed on November 30, was introduced on November 22, two days before the Washington Post published its Nov. 24 article citing “experts” who claim Russian propaganda helped Donald Trump get elected.

PropOrNot has pushed a conspiratorial thesis, without any actual proof, that the listed websites have been either used directly or covertly by the Russians to spread propaganda.

While the bill passed the House with a sweeping majority, it is unknown if and when the bill will work its way through the Senate and be passed into law, although one would think that it has far higher chances of passing under president Obama than the President-Elect. It is also unclear if it will be used to shut down websites anonymously characterized as “useful idiots” or subversive elements used in disseminating supposed Russian propaganda.

And
from Info Wars

Congress
Authorizes "Ministry of Truth" Powers for State Department

Infowars
David Knight and legal expert Lionel discuss moves being made by the
establishment to push back on the increasingly-successful independent
media.

Watch
– Alex Jones: We Now Know The Globalist Attack Plan Three Weeks
After The Election